Tamarind Chutney

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Chicken Tikka Chaat (see related recipe) calls for lone 2 tablespoons of this sweet-tart sauce, but you'll similar having other chutney connected hand. Use it to glaze roasted pork oregon chicken, adhd it to your favourite spaghetti sauce, spoon it connected apical of coconut atom oregon service it with lukewarm dosas.

Jaggery is an unrefined sweetener that comes successful chunks. Black brackish (kala namak) is strong-smelling and person successful colour to purple, with a somewhat metallic taste. Roasted cumin pulverization has a much pronounced aroma and spirit than regular crushed cumin. Those ingredients, positive blocks of dried tamarind (pods), are disposable astatine Indian markets.

The chutney tin beryllium refrigerated successful an airtight instrumentality for respective months.

From cook Vikram Sunderam of Rasika successful downtown Washington.

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 2-2.33 cups

1 lb dried artifact tamarind (see headnote)
8 ounces pitted dates, coarsely chopped
3-inch portion (1 ounce) peeled ginger root, coarsely chopped (3 heaping tablespoons)
Cloves from 1 tiny caput garlic, coarsely chopped (4 heaping tablespoons)
Two 2-inch chunks jaggery, finely chopped (see headnote)
3 tablespoons granulated sugar
5 tiny dried reddish chile peppers, stemmed, seeded if desired, past finely chopped
4 bay leaves, crushed
1 tablespoonful fennel seeds
Water
1 spoon roasted cumin pulverization (see headnote)
1 spoon reddish chili powder
1/2 spoon crushed achromatic brackish (see headnote)
Salt